
The car of Estonia Ambassador Marina Kalyurand was blocked on Myasnitskaya Street Moscow after the end of the diplomat press conference in the press center of Arguments and Facts. According to the correspondent of the faces, about a hundred representatives of the youth movements "Russia Young" and "Ours" surrounded the car for about 20 minutes prevented him from leaving the street.
In the area of Turgenevskaya Square OMON and the police pushed activists from the car. Now Calyrand has returned to the territory of the diplomatic mission. Her car drove into the underground garage, the ambassador and the diplomats accompanying her came out. The protesters only managed to skip “Shame! Shame!”, RIA Novosti reports.
Representatives of youth organizations chanted "Down with Myasitsa!", "Freedom to the defenders of memory!", "Suitcase, station, dump!" Some of them held posters in their hands with the inscription "Who killed Dmitry Ganin?" In the crowd, the flags of "Russia are young" were visible, some of the protesters were dressed in the jackets of "ours".
About 10 riot police were present on the street. According to the correspondent of the "faces", at first they did not prevent young people from pursuing the ambassador’s car, then they began to disperse them.
The movement along Myasnitskaya was blocked.
At a press conference, Calyrand said that Russia does not want to conduct a dialogue with Tallinn on the transfer of a monument to the Soviet soldiers. “Estonia’s readiness for an open and transparent dialogue was once again rejected by the Russian side,” she said, commenting on the results of the trip to Estonia of the delegation of Russian parliamentarians.
"I really hope that there will be no rupture of diplomatic relations between our states," Kalyurand said.
Before the start of the press conference, activists tried to disrupt her. They broke into the building of the press center of the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" and attacked the ambassador. According to Calyrand, the police did not interfere with the attackers, and the guards of the diplomat sprayed pepper gas. One person was injured.
In addition, activists arranged a pogrom in the office, which now belonged to the deceased chief editor of AiF Vladislav Starkov, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the press center of Salauddin Islamova. According to him, they "defeated office equipment and prevented the normal work of journalists."
The rushing into the building chanted "fascism will not pass!"
Russian pro -presidential youth organizations have been besieging Estonia Embassy in Moscow for several days, protesting against the decision of the Estonian authorities to remove a bronze soldier from the center of Tallinn. The transfer of the monument provoked mass riots in Tallinn last week.